David Chodounsky
David Chodounsky 
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| birthday | 25th June 1984 (age 36) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Saint Paul , United States | ||||||||
| size | 180 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg | ||||||||
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Slalom , giant slalom , super combination |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2018 | ||||||||
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David Chodounsky (born June 25, 1984 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is a retired American ski racer . He started mainly in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .
biography
Chodounsky was born in Saint Paul and grew up in the US state of Minnesota , where he learned to ski. At the age of 7 he joined the Buck Hill Ski Racing Team, where he was trained by Erich Sailer from Austria, among others . To further develop the boy's talent, his parents relocated with him to the Crested Butte ski resort in Colorado in 1995 . By 2008 he attended Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire , and achieved some success with the Big Green College ski team.
In November 1999 Chodounsky competed in his first FIS races , followed a year later by his first sporadic appearances in the Nor-Am Cup . After first victories in FIS races and several placements among the top 20 in the Nor-Am Cup, in January 2007 he drove into the top ten for the first time in a Nor-Am Cup race. After he had achieved tenth place in the slalom ranking with constant performance in the 2007/08 season , he achieved the first podium places and eighth place in the slalom ranking in the winter of 2008/09 . In March 2009, Chodounsky won the US slalom championship, a year later he was runner-up in this discipline and in combination. In the 2009/10 season he not only started in slaloms and giant slaloms in the Nor-Am Cup, but also took part in Super-Gs and super combinations for the first time. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , he celebrated his first victory in the Loveland slalom .
In the World Cup Chodounsky took the first time in the 2009/2010 season in four slaloms in part, but did not in any of these races into the second round of the best 30. This it the first time succeeded in his seventh World Cup race on January 6th 2011, the slalom in Zagreb . There he won his first World Cup points as 20th. After two further placements for 20th place, he was used at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where he was eliminated in the second slalom run after he was 34th in the first run. In the following winter of 2011/2012, Chodounsky only took part in a few races. He ended the season after persistent knee problems in December and underwent an operation on the patellar tendon in January . Due to a broken collarbone , he had to take another break in the summer of 2012, which meant he missed a training camp in New Zealand . On December 13, 2015, Chodounsky achieved his best World Cup result to date with fourth place in the Val-d'Isère slalom . In summer 2018 he announced his retirement from active ski racing.
successes
Olympic games
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 9th team competition, 18th slalom
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 29th giant slalom
- St. Moritz 2017 : 11th giant slalom, 12th slalom
World cup
- 7 placements among the top ten in individual races
- 1 podium in team competitions
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | |||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2010/11 | 112. | 32 | - | - | 43. | 32 |
| 2012/13 | 63. | 105 | - | - | 21st | 105 |
| 2013/14 | 62. | 93 | - | - | 19th | 93 |
| 2014/15 | 70. | 85 | 39. | 14th | 25th | 71 |
| 2015/16 | 49. | 210 | 40. | 25th | 15th | 185 |
| 2016/17 | 73. | 90 | 39. | 27 | 31. | 63 |
| 2017/18 | 104. | 34 | - | - | 34. | 34 |
Nor-Am Cup
- 2007/2008 season : 10th slalom ranking
- Season 2008/2009 : 8th slalom ranking
- Season 2009/2010 : 8th super combination rating
- 2010/2011 season : 6th slalom ranking
- 9 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| November 27, 2010 | Loveland | United States | slalom |
More Achievements
- 3 American championship titles (Slalom 2009, 2015, 2016)
- 5 podiums in the Australian New Zealand Cup , including 3 wins
- 16 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Website of David Chodounsky (English)
- David Chodounsky in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- David Chodounsky in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- David Chodounsky on the US ski team's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ US slalom specialist David Chodounsky ends his career. Skiweltcup.tv, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chodounsky, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Paul, Minnesota , United States |